Build a 'Chat with your code' app using Ollama, Weaviate, and LlamaIndex on Lightning AI Studio

Hello Weaviate Community! 🤗

It's wonderful to see you here again! This week, we're excited to present you with another batch of how-to guides and expert podcasts to keep you in the know. Also, grab a chance to connect with our community, participate in workshops, and stay at the forefront of AI innovation.

Let's dive into what the next two weeks have in store for us!

Chat with your code

Ready to build a “Chat with your code” application with Ollama, Weaviate, and LlamaIndex on Lightning AI Studio?

We’ve just published a Lightning AI Studio template that you can copy. In minutes, you’ll be up and running with your Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline.

Jump right in here!

AI tips, tricks, and tech

How-to

• ✍️ 32x Reduced Memory Usage With Binary Quantization by Abdel Rodriguez and Zain Hasan

  • In-depth technical breakdown of how binary quantization works and how to use it in Weaviate.

• 🎥 Generate Multimodal Datasets for AI Prototypes by Edward Schmuhl

  • Welcome to Generator9000, our latest open-source tool for generating synthetic data tailored to your use case. Whether you need data for your demo, Proof of Concept (PoC), or project, use Generator9000 to jumpstart data generation and use the Weaviate integration to add it to your vector database directly.

Newest AI & data technology developments

Podcasts

• 🎙 RAG for Veterinarians (VetRec) with David de Matheu - Weaviate Podcast #92!

  • Featuring David and Kevin discussing their pivot from Neum AI to VetRec, exploring technical opportunities around RAG for Veterinarians, including SOAP notes and Differential Diagnosis, as well as David's insights on the ETL space, companies like Unstructured and LlamaIndex's LlamaParse, and advice for specific focus in ETL for Vector DBs / KGs / SQL.

Listen to the Weaviate podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. ✨🎧

Upcoming events

NY AI in Prod Roadshow

Our AI [in Prod] roadshow is making its next stop in New York City on May 21st. Join us for tech talks from our CTO Etienne, experts at Google Cloud, and Weaviate's customers. In the afternoon, Sebastian will run a hands-on Intro to Building AI-native Applications course.

• Request a ticket

Weaviate office hours

You voted—we acted! Our next office hours will be about gRPC and performance, in addition to a general Q&A. Meet our experts, John Trengrove and Duda Nogueira, personally, and ask them all the questions you have always wanted. 💚

• Register here

Online workshops

Advanced-level workshops are here! We are now adding more and more advanced topics to our workshop schedule - of course, next to our regular beginner-level Intro Workshops. No matter which level - register for one of our free online workshops and learn from our experts:

• Wednesday, April 17th | Getting Started with the New Weaviate TypeScript Client with Daniel Phiri

  • Details & Registration

• Thursday, April 18th | Online Workshop: Intro to Weaviate with JP Hwang

  • Details & Registration

• Tuesday, April 23rd | Online Workshop: Advanced RAG with Zain Hasan

  • Details & Registration

Remember to check out the provided links for all the details on how to sign up. We can't wait to meet you!

Welcoming new faces

• Meet Nathan Wilkinson, joining us as a Distributed Systems Engineer.

  

We’re hiring!

Check out our open roles:

• Research Engineer - Vector Databases

• Product Support Engineer (US West Coast)

• Client-Focused Site Reliability Engineer (US West Coast)

• Senior Platform Engineer

Have a look at our career page for more roles and opportunities! ✨

Thank you for reading

Do you have any questions about Weaviate, vector databases, documentation, or other topics? Say hi at the Community Slack or join our Weaviate Forum, where you can engage in community conversations. Looking forward to your participation over the next two weeks!

Weaviate is open source. Check out our GitHub repository, and don't forget to star us while you're there ⭐

Till the next one,

Femke